Scientists pinpoint a new line of defence used by cancer cells
Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defence used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according to research published in Nature...
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Cell division induces tissue ordering
Nature's ingenious systems: A layer of cells called endothelial cells lines the interior of blood vessels. When blood flows through the vessels, such cells only...
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans. Julie Shah (left) and Been Kim Photo Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT Computers are good...
This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly
Forget stitches — there's a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina talks about his invention — a medical gel...
Dopamine helps with math rules as well as mood
The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor skills. It seems it can...
Robot Control Theory Improves Prosthetic Legs
A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer’s environment and help amputees...
3-D printed heart could reduce heart surgeries in children
New 3D printed heart technology could reduce the number of heart surgeries in children with congenital heart disease, according to Dr Peter Verschueren who spoke...
The smart mouse with the half-human brain
What would Stuart Little make of it? Mice have been created whose brains are half human. As a result, the animals are smarter than their...
Neural 3-D compass discovered in mammalian brain
Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell "up" from "down"...
Human eye can see ‘invisible’ infrared light
Any science textbook will tell you we can’t see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are outside the visual spectrum.But an...
Researchers develop clothes that can monitor and transmit biomedical info on wearers
Researchers at Université Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles able to monitor and transmit...
Scientists detect brain network that gives humans superior reasoning skills
When it comes to getting out of a tricky situation, we humans have an evolutionary edge over other primates. Take, as a dramatic example, the...
BNA 2015 Festival of Neuroscience (12 -15 April 2015)
Festival of Neuroscience will highlight some of the best research into the brain and nervous system in a conference with speakers and delegates from the...
Meet the Two Scientists Who Implanted a False Memory Into a Mouse
Can we edit the content of our memories? It’s a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT....
Computer model enables design of complex DNA shapes
Bioengineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric...
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